Wiggins, Colorado Weather
Wiggins, Colorado — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Wiggins, Morgan County.
Full aviation weather for Wiggins is published on the Fort Morgan Municipal Airport (KFMM) page, 26 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 5 airfields within reach of Wiggins have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Wiggins: Brush Municipal Airport (K7V5) 42 km · Easton/Valley View Airport (K11V) 47 km · Greeley–Weld County Airport (KGXY) 53 km · Platte Valley Airpark (K18V) 55 km
Conditions reported at KFMM describe the airfield itself. Weather 26 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Wiggins specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Wiggins.
About Wiggins, Colorado
Wiggins exists as a quiet exhalation on the high plains, where the land stretches out with an almost improbable flatness, interrupted only by the subtle, persistent sculpting of wind and water. It lies 36.1 miles east-south-east of Greeley, CO (from Greeley, CO: bearing 111°T), and is situated 14.5 miles west of Fort Morgan. The sky here is an immense, ever-present canvas, its blues deepening to indigo at the edges of dusk, and its golds bleeding into soft apricot as the sun begins its slow descent. Sparse cottonwood trees, their leaves a vibrant green against the sun-bleached earth, cluster near the intermittent flow of the South Platte River, their roots anchoring them against the vast, open sweep of the landscape. The air itself carries a dry, clean scent, a distillation of prairie grasses and the distant, mineral tang of the earth. This is a place where the echoes of the past are carried on the wind, a history tied to the westward expansion and the tenacious spirit of those who sought to coax life from this seemingly austere terrain. The local economy, once reliant on the fertile river valley for agriculture, now sees a steady hum of activity centered around its role as a transit point and agricultural hub, with grain elevators standing like silent sentinels against the horizon. The enduring image of Wiggins is one of resilience, of a community that has learned to thrive under the wide, watchful eye of the Colorado sky, finding beauty not in dramatic peaks or shadowed valleys, but in the enduring strength of the land and the quiet dignity of its people.
Live animated radar for Wiggins and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
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| Location | Wiggins, Morgan County, Colorado |
| Coordinates | 40.230536°N, 104.072728°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 80654 |
| Area Code | 303, 720 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Wiggins, Colorado Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Wiggins, Colorado, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Wiggins includes coordinates 40.230536°N, 104.072728°W, situated in Morgan County. ZIP code 80654. Telephone area code: 303, 720. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Denver).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
